Excerpt from Mexico: Important Official Documents; Term of Office of President Juarez; Extraordinary Powers Conferred by Congress; Unexampled Votes of Confidence; Four Successive Sessions of Congress Endorse the President Three years of stubborn struggle and persistent effort fol lowed. The power of a trained Army and the wealth of a Clergy fighting for their temporal possessions on one side; the industrious masses, poor but determined, and having nu bounded faith in their leader, on the other. After a long succession of varied fortune the bloody battle of San Miguel Calpulalpan, in which, on the 22d of December, 1860, half of the army of the rebellion was captured, together with forty pieces of artillery and all their munitions of war, sealed the triumph of the constitutional cause, and on the 11th of Jan uary, 1861, President Juarez and the constitutional authorities ate-entered the capital whence they had been driven just three years before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.